Variable ohm resister
This week I have been working on gathering data from the flight batteries as they are tested together. My mentor and I built a discharger that will discharge both of the flight batteries at the same time. To do this we connected both batteries through the arduino into a variable ohm resister. We set the ohms to be around 8.4 because we want to discharge the batteries at 1 amp, but because we do not have an electronic discharger that will regulate the amps coming out of the batteries, the 8.4 ohm resister will slowly decrease the current that is being pulled from the batteries. This means that the batteries will take longer to discharge and the current coming out of it will be varying. This is not a perfect method of gathering the data but it is close enough for the data that I am taking.
One set of flight batteries
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